as in extramarital
relating to or being a sexual encounter or relationship between a married person and someone other than their spouse had an adulterous affair that nearly destroyed his marriage

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Recent Examples of adulterous The aforementioned two seasons of Big Little Lies featured Kidman as Celeste Wright, a rich former lawyer and now Monterrey stay-at-home mom with an abusive, adulterous, and freshly dead husband that’s all based on a Liane Moriarty novel. Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 13 Sep. 2024 Here, the series extends the fallout from a life-defining adulterous affair down the decades. John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Sep. 2024 For decades, there had been adulterous movie-star romances. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Aug. 2024 Sorcerers, lovers, traitors, heroes saintly or adulterous, iconic women of power. Elizabeth Hand, Washington Post, 16 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for adulterous
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  • In one particularly jarring example, under threat of being unplugged, Anthropic’s latest creation Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an engineer and threatened to reveal an extramarital affair.
    Thomas Urbain, Fortune, 29 June 2025
  • Last seen alive in 2020 In the first case against him, prosecutors argued that Barry Morphew killed his wife on May 9, 2020, after discovering her nearly two-year extramarital affair, then disposed of her body and staged a bike crash before leaving for work in Broomfield early the next day.
    Katie Langford, Denver Post, 20 June 2025
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  • To be eligible, applicants must score 32 or better on the ACT and have a high school GPA of at least 3.9, with community service, extracurricular activities and evidence of intellectual curiosity, leadership, and creativity also considered.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 7 July 2025
  • Those factors can look like children and teenagers not having access to a high-quality education or extracurricular activities like summer camps.
    Katie Langford, Denver Post, 5 July 2025

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“Adulterous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adulterous. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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